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My husband disapproved, didn’t want to let me work. Alright, he didn’t feel like letting me work, but I invented all sort of things, because he couldn’t have supported the family from his salary. In the meantime the family got a fourth member, and we couldn’t have lived on his salary of a thousand and four hundred lei. I invented all kind of things. I prepared chocolate, I filled slices with delicious Dobostorta cream, and I was selling home-made chocolate, cakes, with a modest interest, to say so.
I sold one piece of chocolate for one lei, and the cake too. And in the meantime I mended invisibly until midnight, I earned more than my husband. Because I couldn’t bear it, I needed it [the money]… And we had two children. Then I was teaching German [at home], sometimes I even had nine students [during one academic year].
I sold one piece of chocolate for one lei, and the cake too. And in the meantime I mended invisibly until midnight, I earned more than my husband. Because I couldn’t bear it, I needed it [the money]… And we had two children. Then I was teaching German [at home], sometimes I even had nine students [during one academic year].
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Romania
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Alice Kosa